Slow Cooker - The Recipe Collection

Sui_Generis

dandm1 wrote: »

And whilst I;m here, does anyone have a recipe for meatballs? I saw them mentioned on a previous page, but no recipe?

There are a few posted in the daily SC thread.

There may be a few more too, but this works with turkey or beef.

rozeepozee

Downsizing__for_sanity wrote: »

Steak Pie...

About a 1lb of cheapest stewing steak, flour and brown in olive or sunflower oil, add a chopped onion and garlic clove and half a cinnamon stick. Add a couple of oxo cubes, some chopped carrots and cook on auto for at least 4 hours. The longer it cooks for, the more tender it is and the more it breaks down and becomes yummy. I buy pastry ready made, roll it out into star and heart shapes with cookie cutters and serve them with it. Hubby does the mashed potatoes..

Know this is an old post, so don't know if anyone will be able to answer this but this recipe seems to have no liquid in it. Won't it burn or be very dry?

I did my first ever dish in my new slow cooker yesterday and it burnt so I'm feeling alittle disheartened and would like to avoid another disiater and my OH giving me that knowing look (you should never have bought it...)

TIA

Sui_Generis

rozeepozee wrote: »

Know this is an old post, so don't know if anyone will be able to answer this but this recipe seems to have no liquid in it. Won't it burn or be very dry?

I did my first ever dish in my new slow cooker yesterday and it burnt so I'm feeling alittle disheartened and would like to avoid another disiater and my OH giving me that knowing look (you should never have bought it...)

TIA

Don't be downhearted - for most recipes you can get by with around 1/2 pint of liquid/stock and whatever the vegetables give up. The most common problem is too much liquid as you'll see reading through the SC threads.

In that recipe I suspect the ref to stock cubes implies liquid?

rosie383

I have just been reading through this looking for inspiration, and have only one thing to add.
EVERY SINGLE TIME that I have been to car boot sales, I have seen slow cookers for sale. They only cost a few pounds. I bought mine for £2 and it is great. So many people get them and don't use them, so sell them off after a few years of sitting in cupboards. If you want a big all-singing-all-dancing one, go for it and spend loads, but if it is your first one, and you don't know if you would get much use from it, just spend a couple of quid and see how you go.

fingerz

Hello everybody... i have just bought my first slow cooker today 3.5 ltr from Wilkinsons at £12.99..and in the very brief instructions that i have, its says all food should be covered with liquid, gravy or sauce and completly cover the food in the crock pot..!!!! well this is a great thread on slow cookers and i have not read through it all and the answer may be there somewhere....but one of the above posts by Sui_Generis talks about just using 1/2 pint stock which i presume may not cover all the food.... The advertising pics for some of the cookers look great with the meat and veg almost full to the top and now it seems i have to fill only 1/3 to 1/2 full....with my destructions..... woe is me..

Sublime_2

fingerz wrote: »

Hello everybody... i have just bought my first slow cooker today 3.5 ltr from Wilkinsons at £12.99..and in the very brief instructions that i have, its says all food should be covered with liquid, gravy or sauce and completly cover the food in the crock pot..!!!!

You don't have to for everything. I think the manufacturers put that to cover themselves in case the food isn't cooked properly.

For things like casseroles, stews, etc, I put enough liquid to barely cover, otherwise by the time its cooked down, you end up too much liquid.

For poultry, joints of meat, I just put a couple of cms of liquid in the bottom (usually wine, veg stock, or water).

I'm cooking chicken with 30 garlic cloves tomorrow, and I'll just put a glass or two of wine with it. Some even cook poultry without adding anything, although I do, as it did start to stick once.

Try yours and see, as slow cookers can vary.

shandypants5

I do BBQ ribs in mine with no liquid at all and it cooks just fine, although I do have to drain out the fat half way through cooking.

Ribs are great in a slowwcooker, you end up with a pile of the cleanest bones you ever saw after the meal.

fingerz

Thanks Sublime.... I thought it might have been a bit over the top with the instructions...
I wonder if I could you actually roast a joint of meat then?

First a Beef casserole tomoz...!!...

fingerz

shandypants5 wrote: »

I do BBQ ribs in mine with no liquid at all and it cooks just fine, although I do have to drain out the fat half way through cooking.

Ribs are great in a slowwcooker, you end up with a pile of the cleanest bones you ever saw after the meal.

Thanks shandypants...is there perhaps an open wire grill or something you could suspend the ribs in from cooking in the fat all day if you can't get to drain it?....questions questions...

shandypants5

fingerz wrote: »

Thanks shandypants...is there perhaps an open wire grill or something you could suspend the ribs in from cooking in the fat all day if you can't get to drain it?....questions questions...

Probly could if I had room but I tend to only cook ribs for partys and so the crock is usually full to the brim with ribs.

beef casserole is a good first meal to try, good luck and dont forget to add dumplins for the last half hour..